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Category Archives: Globospheric

beloved and respected comrade leader kim

beloved and respected comrade leader kim, looking at death

Posted on December 19, 2011 by pilgrim
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pink terror

YouTube – Pink Terror More slo-mo goodness. I must say I’m not over-keen on the soundtrack, but if you are, it’s over here. (via 3quarksdaily)

Posted on April 27, 2010 by pilgrim
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Sydney dust storm

View from Rookwood cemetery, Lidcombe, Sydney Photograph: Sach Killam A pick from the Guardian’s pick of Sydney dust storm pictures. Nothing really to add, just wanted to fix this event in place on the blog… (via Sydney dust storm: your … more…

Posted on September 24, 2009 by pilgrim
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Soul Inventory – Stand By Me

YouTube – Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around the World. Soul check: if this doesn’t make you very happy, then you don’t have one. Sorry about that. (via Projo)

Posted on August 29, 2009 by pilgrim
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We Can Has!

“Come here and give me a hug, you big, silly, wonderful continent.” Jofus, saying it for many of us at MetaFilter UPDATE: full text of Obama’s victory speech, stashed for posterity after the jump.

Posted on November 5, 2008 by pilgrim
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Don’t Be Denied

My tune for the day: Neil Young, Don’t Be Denied, from Time Fades Away (1973). Usual disclaimers apply. I suspect that it’s in the quality of Neil’s delivery (it remains the only version of the song that’s seen official release), … more…

Posted on November 4, 2008 by pilgrim
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We Can Has?

The jewel amongst the Obama campaign videos. It seems like a year ago I first saw this (maybe it was) and here it is again, amongst a selection of YouTubes at 3quarksdaily. The looming election is making me anxious: possibly … more…

Posted on October 30, 2008 by pilgrim
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Ski resort, Dubai

Dubai, as noted previously, is expected to become a major exporter of apocalyptic omens, portents and casual weirdness for that arbitrary portion of the coming century that we can describe — with due trepidation — as “foreseeable”. I passed over … more…

Posted on January 26, 2008 by pilgrim
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links for 2007-11-23: Kissinger, Arthur

LRB ยท Greg Grandin: Sucking up to P A brief history of Henry Kissinger (tags: Kissinger US-foreign-policy politics globospheric) Arthur No. 27 contains an interview with Sun City Girls’ Sir Richard Bishop, written by Erik Davis and illustrated by John … more…

Posted on November 23, 2007 by pilgrim
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links for 2007-10-16: Storm worm, floating Utopias

Gathering ‘Storm’ Superworm Poses Grave Threat to PC Nets Bruce Schneier is worried about the Storm worm, which is thought to have infected between one and fifty million PCs at this point, and it’s just sitting there, waiting. No-one has … more…

Posted on October 17, 2007 by pilgrim
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